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30 series that mess with your mind

Time loops, split memories, unreliable narrators and people you can’t stop thinking about. Each series comes with one line on why it’s worth your nights.

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How to use it

Pick a shelf: puzzles, thrillers or stories about the inner world.
Tick what you’ve watched and see how far you’ve gone down the rabbit hole.
“Shuffle” draws a series for the weekend.
“Where to watch ↗” opens a search on a streaming guide.

Our own selection. Years are of the first season. Some series contain violence and heavy themes.

Puzzles that break your brain

Time, memory and reality are not what they seem.

1
Children vanish in a German town, and four families discover their stories repeat every 33 years.
2
A theme park of androids where the machines start to remember, and to ask who they are.
3
Employees have their work memories surgically split from their private lives. Then they start asking questions.
4
An engineer investigates her boyfriend’s death inside a secret tech lab whose computer can see the past and the future.
5
An emigrant ship bound for New York finds a vessel that vanished months ago. Nothing on board is what it seems.
6
A blind young woman returns after seven years missing, able to see, and gathers five strangers to hear her story.
7
Two strangers join a drug trial that promises to fix their minds, and keep meeting in each other’s visions.
8
Who killed Laura Palmer? The question that changed television, and a town full of secrets.
9
A man diagnosed with schizophrenia may actually be the most powerful mutant alive.
10
Survivors of a plane crash on an island where nothing is an accident.

Psychological thrillers

You won’t trust anyone. Including the narrator.

11
A hacker with social anxiety joins an underground group to bring down a corporation, and can’t trust his own mind.
12
Stand-alone stories about what technology does to us. Every episode is a new world.
13
Season one: two detectives, one ritual murder and seventeen years of conversations about darkness.
14
A journalist returns to her hometown to cover two murders and faces her own past, and her mother.
15
FBI agents interview serial killers to understand how they think.
16
An FBI profiler and a brilliant psychiatrist who happens to be a cannibal.
17
A charming bookshop manager becomes obsessed, and we hear every one of his thoughts.
18
A comedian’s story of being stalked, based on his own life, and of everything he never told anyone.
19
Three mothers, a death at a school fundraiser and the violence hidden behind perfect lives.
20
A woman kills a stranger on a beach and can’t explain why. A detective has to find out.

The inner world

Grief, love, addiction, family. Deep and honest.

21
Two percent of the world’s population vanishes in an instant. The show is about the ones left behind to grieve.
22
A funny, grieving woman talks straight to the camera, until someone notices.
23
An animated horse and fading actor, and one of the most honest shows ever made about depression.
24
Nothing but therapy sessions, and somehow more gripping than any thriller.
25
Two people from a small Irish town who keep finding and losing each other.
26
An orphan chess prodigy, her genius and what it costs her.
27
Teenagers, addiction and searching for yourself, shot like a fever dream. 18+.
28
A ghost story that is really about a family and its trauma.
29
A tired detective investigates a murder in her small town while her own grief stays unsolved.
30
A media empire, an ageing father and four children fighting for his love and his throne.